Giuseppe Bonno

Giuseppe Bonno (29 January 1711-15 April 1788) was an Italian composer in the service of the Austrian Empire. He served as kapellmeister under King Joseph II of Austria during the late 18th century.

Biography
Giuseppe Bonno was born on 29 January 1711 in Vienna, Austria, the son of an Italian footman from Brescia. He was a gifted musician from a young age, and he was sent to Naples in 1726 to study opera and church music. In 1736, he returned to Vienna to become a court composer, and he served as the kapellmeister (court musician) to the Prince of Saxe-Hildburghausen in the 1750s and 1760s. In 1781, he did not agree with King Joseph II of Austria's plans to commission Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to write a German opera, saying that the German language was too "brutal" to be sung as an opera. Bonno died in 1788.